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In Architecture and City Planning , a terrace(d), '''row house''', or '''townhouse''' (though the latter term can also refer to Patio House s) is a style of Housing in use since the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. The first and last of these houses is called an ''end terrace'', usually larger than those houses in the middle. IN THE UNITED KINGDOM The term ''terrace'' was borrowed from Garden Terrace s by English architects of the late Georgian Period to describe streets of houses whose uniform fronts and uniform height created an ensemble that was more stylish than a "row". The "row", as in the 16th century "Yarmouth Rows" in Great Yarmouth , Norfolk , was a designation for a narrow street where the building fronts uniformly ran right to the property line. In England , the first streets of houses with uniform fronts were built by the Huguenot entrepreneur Nicholas Barbon in the rebuilding after the Great Fire Of London , but Paris had led the way in the Place Des Vosges (1605 – 1612). In Parisian squares, central blocks were given discreet prominence, to relieve the façade, but the Georgian idea of treating a row of houses as if it were a palace front, giving the central houses columned fronts under a shared pediment, appeared first in London's Grosvenor Square (1727 onwards; rebuilt) and in Bath 's Queen Square (1729 onwards) (Summerson 1947). Early terraces were also built by the two John Wood s in Bath and under the direction of John Nash in Regent's Park , London , and the name was picked up by speculative builders like Thomas Cubitt and soon became commonplace. It is far from being the case that terraced houses were only built for people of limited means, and this is especially true in London, where some of the richest people in the country owned terraced houses in locations such as Belgrave Square and Carlton House Terrace . By the early Victorian Period , a ''terrace'' had come to designate any style of Housing where individual houses repeating one design are conjoined into rows either long or short. The style was used for workers' housing in Industrial District s during the great industrial boom following the Industrial Revolution , particularly in the houses built for workers of the expanding Textile Industry . The terrace style spread widely in the UK , and was the usual form of high density residential housing up to World War II , though the 19th century need for expressive individuality inspired variation of facade details and floor-plans reversed with those of each neighboring pair, to offer variety within the standardized format. Post-World War II, housing redevelopment has led to many outdated or dilapidated terraces being cleared to make room for Tower Blocks , which occupy a much lower area of land. Because of this land use in Inner City areas can be distributed further to create greater accessibility, employment or recreational or leisure centres. In the UK terraced Industrial District housing has enjoyed huge price rises since around 2001, with prices in most areas (outside London) having more than tripled by mid-2005. In affluent areas terraced houses are often called 'townhouses'. In the 1960s and 1970s areas of affordable terraced housing were often quickly colonised by artists, gay men and young professionals, this being the early stages of the Gentrification that happened in parts of many British cities. In 2005 the English Heritage report ''Low Demand Housing and the Historic Environment'' found that repairing a standard Victorian terraced house over thirty years is around sixty-percent cheaper than building and maintaining a newly-built house. In a 2003 survey for ''Heritage Counts'' a team of experts contrasted a Victorian terrace with a house built after 1980, and found that: :"The research demonstrated that, contrary to earlier thinking, older housing actually costs less to maintain and occupy over the long-term life of the dwelling than more modern housing. Largely due to the quality and life-span of the materials used, the Victorian terrace house proved almost £1,000 per 100 m2 cheaper to maintain and inhabit on average each year." |
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